Thank you very much.
Before I respond to your question, I must record here the feeling of pain and suffering, not only when I spoke of my story, but also when listening to other stories. I am a person who is involved in interfaith dialogue, and throughout the year I have been travelling to different communities to talk about Islam, where on the same stage people have talked about Christianity, Judaism, and Sikhism, etc.
At the end of the day we always say there are so many commonalities in religion. But today we see the commonalities in persecution. If you take the stories of Egypt, Pakistan, or Iraq and change the names of the countries, it is exactly the same story. It is so painful that so many communities are being tortured and persecuted. Unfortunately, the persecutors are everywhere. In this case they're Muslims who are militant, who have exploited their religion and are out to kill everybody who is against their fundamentalism.
To respond to your question, this is a non-partisan issue for the Canadian government, whether it's Liberal or Conservative. This is our common issue. We can talk to those governments, try to stop them, and tell them we are watching and we will not let them do that. Previously in Pakistan there was a dictatorship. Before that, governments said they did not have enough clout because they were minority governments. But after this new dawn of democracy, I think there's a very good chance that we can put pressure on the Government of Pakistan and the Government of Indonesia--